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🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

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🦑🦀🦪 Also, somehow, Fish

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Banner encouraging folks to apply to the ABS Allee Competition. Applications due March 23, 2206 (with your meeting abstract)

Are you a soon-to-be minted Dr. of Animal Behavior? Apply for the Allee Competition at the 2026 ABS meeting!

It's only the most prestigious prize for graduating animal behavior students (IMHO) and a super fun way to present your work to the world 🦜🐒🐟🪰

www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-a...

You know those moments when you see research that so well aligns with your personal interests that ask yourself if you went into the wrong scientific field... yeah, that's this for me. 😜

Apply for the #ABS2026 Turner program! This award is aimed at supporting undergraduates from groups historically underrepresented in science in attending the conference.

See here for more info: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards.php

Take it or leaf it: bees learn leaf shape as a cue when flower colour is easily learned Over a century of research has demonstrated that pollinators, such as bees, associatively learn diverse flower cues, including tactile, visual and olf…

Curious whether bees can learn non-floral cues to find floral rewards? New paper in Animal Behavior @animbehsociety.bsky.social by @mtcastagna.bsky.social, @jentomology.bsky.social, Ciara Stewart, and myself!

We find evidence that bees can learn leaf shape!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apply for the #ABS2026 Turner program! This award is aimed at supporting undergraduates from groups historically underrepresented in science in attending the conference.

See here for more info: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards.php

Are you a postdoc, research scientist, non-tenure track faculty member, or lecturer who wants to attend #ABS2026? Apply to the Career Diversity Travel Award! The award helps fund scientists from less well-supported career stages.
Apply here by March 23:
www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-c...

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Schematic of experimental design in new study.

Dwarf mongoose acting as a sentinel in Limpopo Province, South Africa

📢NEW paper alert

📖How #aggression between groupmates can have lasting consequences both for #cooperative #behaviour & responses to #intergroup threats:

doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

👑Led by @josharbon.bsky.social

#fieldwork #experiments #mongooses #mammals #bioacoustics
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

🌟🌟Interested in a postdoctoral project about host-parasite coevolution and/or underlying mechanisms? 🌟🌟

Check your eligibility for this fellowship & contact me. I am particularly interested in hosting scholars from the Global South (¡Arriba mi gente!). www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

Screenshot of article Animal Behaviour Volume 232, February 2026, 123426 Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response Michał Kochanowski, Anna Dubiec, Aleksander Juszczak, Igor Siedlecki, Piotr Ślipiński, Marta Wrzosek, Enikő Csata, Magdalena Witek

🐜Ants! 🍄Fungal infections! 🦠Immune responses! 💼Task allocation!

Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response”

Read here:

doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123426

Meet the PI / Episode 2 / Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy Spotify video

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy (@avispatica.bsky.social) is out!

Becoming a P.I., building a lab culture, navigating academia as an international researcher and more ✨

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/24sj...
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iswt...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

New mating behavior just dropped

Footage of a southern sleeper shark was captured in January 2025 by a baited deep-sea camera in a trench at about 490 meters beneath the sea surface off the South Shetland Islands.🦈 spklr.io/6003DUXG3

📷: Inkfish/UWA/Kelpie Geoscience
🎵: Current Clouds

Among-trait covariance and cross-year repeatability for direct and indirect individual effects in producer–scrounger behaviour in wild house sparrows Abstract. Variation in traits expressed during social interactions can be attributed to direct individual effects (DIEs) of the focal individual’s identity

Social partners shape phenotypes in house sparrows: direct & indirect social effects covary in producer-scrounger tactics, forming a multivariate syndrome that constrains trait variation:

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

@cdegroot.bsky.social @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social
@dingemanselab.bsky.social

Animal cultures matter for conservation, but also to animals - Learning & Behavior A growing acceptance that many nonhuman animal communities have distinct cultures – group-variable patterns of behavior and information sustained over time by social learning – is beginning to reshape...

"Animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves."

If you enjoyed our recent episode on the value of animal cultures, you may be interested in this new paper by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social & @kristinandrews.bsky.social!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

SCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026 Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...

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Attention science communicators!
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!

Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.

The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.

Apply here!
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Image of the title and abstract of our new paper, with a cartoon Ovenbird superimposed. The title of the paper is: Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals.

Our new paper is out today in Animal Behaviour: "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals." By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, & me. @animbehsociety.bsky.social

How loud is an Ovenbird's song? It depends...
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Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

Happy birthday, Chuck.

Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

⭐The ASSAB 2026 conference registrations are now open⭐

Early bird registrations are open until 15 May 2026

Click here to register: www.assab.org/assab-2026

We are also open for abstract submissions!

23-25 June, Adelaide, South Australia
Flinders University

Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.

My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/

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Image array of 3 MMM-themed, science-based Valentines with an Eagle Owl, Asian Elephant, & Lynx. Screen-reader valentines also available at the LibGuide. We got you, Boo.

You know what's better than science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of #2026MMM Combatants!?!

Science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of combatants that carry ear-worms. They're INFECTIOUS!

Download in color or greyscale at the LibGuide libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera

This is a *great* opportunity for early career researchers to get their work out into the public domain!

I had a fab time talking to Laura about my research on the evolution of masturbation 🐒👋🍆💦🦧🌮👈:

open.spotify.com/episode/3Xy9...

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students to study vocal communication in tropical birds. The deadline to apply is less than a week away! #birds #birdsong #ornithology #animalbehavior #BirdsCanada #AcademicSky #SciComm

Screenshot of repository of science education and outreach resources

Looking to make your science accessible and meaningful? Need help developing science education & outreach materials or ideas?

Well then do we have the resource for you! The ABS Communications Committee developed this excellent repository of resources, so check it out!

tinyurl.com/4evx8wyx

Logo featuring bright pink background with red lips and the words "I Came for Science"

Are you an early career ABS member with diverse lived experiences that also studies sex &/or reproduction? Do you want to be interviewed for the "I Came For Science" podcast by fellow ABS member Laura Sirot? I bet you do!

(Contact info on their webpage)
www.icameforscience.org